Graduate Certificate of Information Technology

Version

6

Division

Tropical Environments and Societies

Minimum English language proficiency requirements

Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 1 – Schedule II of the JCU Admissions Policy.

Special admission requirements

Nil

Additional course rules

Nil

Course learning outcomes

JCU graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility. JCU graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics.

On successful completion of the Graduate Certificate of Information Technology, JCU graduates will be able to:

• Analyse to select appropriate tools and technologies to meet project requirements

• Consolidate industry standard contexts for project management approaches

• Advance knowledge of technologies and networking methods

• Synthesise legal and ethical issues including scope of liability and digital rights management

• Communicate technical information clearly through presentations, demonstrations and documentation

• Use independent judgment to synthesise information to solving IT issues

• Demonstrate a capacity to reflect on progress to tailor self-learning goals for professional development.

Brisbane

Singapore

Maximum time to complete

3 years

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

No

Accreditation requirements

Nil

Supplementary exam for final subject

A student who has failed a single subject towards the award in their final teaching period and who gained 40% or more of the marks for that subject may be granted a supplementary examination in that subject. However if that subject is required for accreditation, then the criteria specified by that accreditation will apply.

Maximum allowed

6 credit points

Expiry

Advanced standing gained for any subject shall be cancelled 7 years after the date of the examination upon which the advanced standing is based if, by then, the student has not completed this course.

Approved abbreviation

GCertInfTech

Exit with lesser award

Not applicable